Then a work-from-home order went out across Microsoft and everything changed. “My manager was going to fly in to meet me, and I was getting ready to go to new employee orientation.” “When I started on April 6, COVID-19 hadn’t shut everything down yet,” he says. Samocha’s onboarding journey has been similar. “I haven’t met anyone face-to-face-I met my new manager on a Teams call.” “Everything about this entire process has been virtual,” says Koch, who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was a major moment for her when she showed up for her first day of work on May 4, even if she never left home to do it. Her job is to help customers adopt and get the most out of Microsoft Teams. Koch, a self-described Microsoft fan, has been selling or advocating for the company’s products “for more years than I care to admit.” In her new role, she’s a customer success manager for the company’s Great Lakes Region in the United States. So was Eran Samocha’s.īoth are newly minted Microsoft employees who, like new employees everywhere, are embarking on new career journeys under unprecedented conditions. Allison Koch’s first day at Microsoft was a long time coming.
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